Ventilation of box cars



Sept. 14, 1926.

W. E. WINE VENTILATION OF BOX CARS Filed March 20, 1925 Patented Sept. 14, 1926.

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' art, box cars that "are ventilatedare provided with -'a ventilator or ventilators int-heir op positezends, and furthermore, the, side doors of the cars are'attimes prov-idedwith 'a form of ventilati-ngmeanssuch as an opening pro- 'tected withharabehind which is placed a netting, but there are certain disadvantages in ventilating-a car in-thisinanner, "as will be pointed out.

. \Vhen thegd'oors are gprovided with a ventilatin means, it, of 'course,; adds expense to the costof the -doors, -and .duefto the dentinual opening and-closing ot the doors, they wear, become jam-med, are forced open, and thus wear out more quickly than the remainder 'of the canand although the ventilatforio'rven'tilati-ng nrea'ns may be in perfect order, the door has to be discarded and the ventilator discarded with it.

Further, ventilators of the Wine type, or any ventilators, having moving parts and shutters cannot be well installed in the doors, as it wouldmean that itwould add increased weight to the door and thejar and slamming of the doors would soon damage the ventilator.

One of the principal objects therefore, of

thepresent invention, is to cut openings in the opposite sides of the box cars and adp jacent the doorways, and place ventilators within these openings, thus providmg a staggered relatlon of the ventilators, which permits a more perfect ventilation to the interior of the car.

Still another object of the invention is to arrange two ventilators opposite the doorway on one side of the car one above the other, and two more ventilators in the relative same position but on the opposite side of the car and diagonally positioned with these first two mentioned ventilators.

Still another object of the invention is to arrange these ventilators opposite their respective doorways, and to also provide a ventilator in the opposite ends of the cars, thus providing a fine circulation of air throughout the entire interior of the car.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain new and novel r a eme t shi o bin i n of. Par s as wifllbe hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim.

Referring now to the dra.win'gs (showing a areea e fe be imen o h i veat -fa 11 gas a s de elevat on of gaboxiear 1-; showing the novel arrangement of the ven-.

tile rs for maxim u m ventilation.

Fig. '2 is ahor-izontal sectionalview taken l 1 11-1 1 6- 2+2 a rF sl showing ventilator secured in the end of the .car, and

-F g. 4 s a door opening.-

' As may be seen :in ,Eig. 1, there it'wo ventilato s v5 ands,pesaiaaeatppoatefthe door 'opea'ia 2, these aauiaarsf'bemg ar- Fig. 3 is a fr agmentary sectional view.

fragmentary" sectional view showing the ventilator securedadjacent the Referringrnow more specificallyto the ng sho'wn and drawn ranged one above the other, and adjacent the door opening, and at the far side from the door when the latter is pulled to'its open position. 4

These ventilators may be the \Vine type ventilators, as shown in my Patent. No

1,040,084 granted on October 1, 1912, or any of my later type ventilators, and in fact, may be ventilators of other types than the WVine ventilators.

I -mention especially the Wine type ventilators as it is one of my own products, but it will be strongly understood that any other good type of ventilator might be used. 5 e

As may be seen in Fig. 1, there is shown in dotted lines two more ventilators 7 and 8 which are located one above the other similar to the arrangement of the ventilators 5 and 6, but as may be clearly seen in Fig. 2, the. ventilator 7 is diagonally opposite the ven- 1 tilator 5, and the'ventilator .8 will be diagonally opposite the ventilator 6.

There is a great advantage in having these ventilator 9 (see Fig. 2) and at the rear end At the forward end of the car is shown a I ing the ventilator 9 in place, while in Fig. 4

there is shown a slightly different arrangement for securing the ventilators to the uprights in the car but this manner of securmg the ventilators does not form a part of the present invention.

As heretofore mentioned the arrangement of the ventilators in staggered relation with each other and in the sides of the car adjacent the sides of the door opening is far superior to a screened or barred'opening in the respective doors, inasmuch as the air will more freely circulate throughout the interior of the car and thus provide a maximum ventilation, which is impossible where the ventilators are directly opposed to each other. Furthermore, the ventilators by being placed in the sides of the car rather than in the doors. are subject only to the shocks incident to the car as a whole, and not further subjected to the shocks that are incident to the doors by the opening and closing of the same. The doors may become worn, damaged or discarded and new ones replaced without in any way aflecting the ventilators. Again, by providing two ventilators, one

above the other, hot air may pass from near the the top of the car at its central portion while the cool air may pass in along the lower central portions of the car.

From the foregoing it will be seen that by arranging theend ventilators and side ventilators as shown the car may be kept cool 'or rather may be supplied with fresh air at all times and the circulation far superior to the circulation that is obtained in the ears with the ventilators, as now arranged.

I do not wish to be limited to the type of ventilators shown, nor to the manner in which they are secured within the car, but what I do claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is v 1 A box car having door openings in its respective sides and two ventilators located one above the other on each ofthe respective sides adjacent the door openings and operable from the car floor, the ventilators on one side of the car being in staggeredrelation with the ventilators on the opposite sides of the car a ventilator in both the opposite ends of said car cooperating with the staggered ventilators in the sides of the car, all of said ventilators being substantially flush with the respectivev outer surfaces of the car, and the remaining portions of the side and ends of the car presenting substantially an unbroken surface.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

7 WILLIAM E. WINE. 

